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ustad commented on The cost of interrupted work (2023) blog.oberien.de/2023/11/0... · Posted by u/_vaporwave_

kmoser · 18 hours ago

Have you tried plugging in a second keyboard and taking over where necessary? I do a lot of remote work in which my colleague and I work on the same computer and it's quite useful for either of us to jump in with our own keyboard (and mouse). It does take a bit of occasional verbal negotiation to agree on who really knows what to do (and can do it fastest) but if you communicate well then it's pretty easy.

ustad · 15 hours ago

Can you say more about your setup? Does it require extra hardware/software?

ustad commented on I bought a £16 smartwatch just because it used USB-C shkspr.mobi/blog/2025/08/... · Posted by u/blenderob

LarMachinarum · 10 days ago

that could indeed be an option depending on your use case. The problem with those (aside from finding a suitable enclosure) is that while more powerful, they aren't at all optimized for use in really low-power conditions and that their energy consumption is consequently enormously higher than that of e.g. an nRF52 (e.g. nRF52832 or nRF52840), so that the battery time would likely be significantly shorter.

ustad · 6 days ago

Regarding power I agree - a weeks worth is hard to get. inside i don’t mind plugging in power and outside if a lipo battery can last afew hours (while jogging etc) I’m good to go. Also these cpus have very good sleep modes.

ustad commented on Web apps in a single, portable, self-updating, vanilla HTML file hyperclay.com/... · Posted by u/pil0u

codedokode · 6 days ago

I would like web standards have better support for pages stored in a local file (opened using file:// protocol). Sometimes I write simple HTML/Vue based mini-apps for myself and every time something doesn't work and I need workarounds, for example:

- local HTML file cannot import local JS modules, so I have to use legacy writing style

- local HTML file cannot open other local files (for example, audio files)

I understand that there is a risk if we allow local HTML files to access anything, but there should be some way - for example, a file or directory might have some suffix that allows access to it.

I do not want to use a web-server because it feels like overengineering and I don't want to open a terminal, navigate to a directory and start a server every time, it takes too much time. I just want to type the URL and have my app running.

ustad · 6 days ago

“…I don't want to open a terminal, navigate to a directory and start a server every time, it takes too much time…”

I have a shell script that does these steps - including opening the browser with the target url. I use it on a regular basis.